Elazığ Culture Park ( tr, Elazığ Kültür Park) is a public park in

Elazığ Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. It is located in the uppermost Euphrates valley. The plain on which the city extends has an altitude of . El ...

, a city in the

Eastern Anatolia The Eastern Anatolia Region ('' tr, Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi'') is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous province in the region is Van Province. Other populous provinces are Malatya, Erzurum and Elazığ. It is bordered by the Black Se ...

region of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The park is counted as one of the largest parks in the region.

Geography

The park is at the eastern part of the center of

. Its altitude is . It is surrounded by City Stadium to the west, Zafran Mesire Alanı to the north, 8th General Directorate of High Ways to the east and, Olgunlar District to the south.

History

During the early years of the

, the site was used as a city nursery. As the growth of the city of

step by step site surrounded by the high density residential buildings. At 2010 Municipality of

took the site and established Elazığ Culture Park and opened to the public on 29 May 2015, the Conquest Day of İstanbul.

Design

Designers of Elazığ Culture Park are world known Turkish architect

Günay Erdem Günay Erdem (born 18 April 1978) is a Turkish Architect (graduated) and self-taught landscape architect. Günay Erdem together with his brother Sunay Erdem leads architectural and urban design practice Erdem Architects which they founded in 199 ...

together with famous Turkish landscape architects Serpil Öztekin Erdem and

Sunay Erdem Sunay Erdem (born 17 March 1971) is a Turkish landscape architect (by degree) and self-taught architect. He is one of Turkey's most prolific and best Landscape architects of his generation. Sunay Erdem founded Erdem Architects with his brother, G ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elazig Culture Park Parks in Elazığ Urban public parks 1943 establishments in Turkey